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Dixie (Paramount) is a dull, none-too-faithful account of the career of Dan Emmett, author of Dixie, and one of the four Original Virginia Minstrels of 1843. Even the personality of Bing Crosby as Emmett, plus the great historic theme song, plus Technicolor, cannot enliven the picture's turgid progress through three conflagrations, too many minstrel shows leading to fame & fortune in New Orleans. When Crosby sings, fans will not be critical. But much of the time he is engaged in crude, unconvincing romances with Marjorie Reynolds and Dorothy Lamour. And most of the time the minstrelsy...
...Bill Davison's fine group, the Ken has imported George Johnson, ex-Raymond Scott. Further back, George's alto used to be one of the biggest kicks in Franckie Newton's old band. His present outfit is only four pieces, but it is soon to be augmented, possibly by Emmett Berry, exTeddy Wilson and Horace Henderson...
...place, the session is expanded to more than double the size of the last one. Definitely coming are, hold your breath: Coleman Hawkins and Pete Brown again; Teddy Wilson's band minus Teddy, but including Edmund Hall, clarinet, Benny Morton, trombone, Johnny Williams, bass, Sidney Catlett drums, and Emmett Berry, trumpet; Frankie Newton and some of his old band, such as Ernie Trottman, and possibly Vic Dickenson...
...radio operator called me on the interphone and said: 'Sir, I've got a little fire back here.' I looked back. Smoke was pouring from the waist-gun ports. The bombardier-Lieut. Emmett W. Ford of Siloam Springs, Ark.-and navigator-Lieut. Jacob C. Shively of Indianapolis-headed aft to help. They were on the catwalk in the bomb bay when a shell plowed in and exploded alongside them. It blew the navigator down on to the bomb doors. It was good luck they didn't open. He had no chute...
Although nagana is not known in the U.S., other drowsing diseases are. Recently Colonel John C. Woodland and Major Emmett M. Smith of the Army Medical Corps reported in the A.M.A. Journal: "Epidemics of acute infectious encephalitis are increasing in frequency and severity." Treating 13 soldiers at Fort Sam Houston last summer, the two Army doctors verified the belief that the disease may exist clinically in the U.S. without positive laboratory identification. Epidemic encephalitis, erroneously called "sleeping sickness," is not related to the curse of Africa but it has many of the same symptoms and apparently shares the same animal...